“We’re a Mexican American band, and no word describes America like immigrant. Most of us are children of immigrants, so it’s perhaps natural that the songs we create celebrate America in this way.” So says Louie Perez, the poet laureate” and primary wordsmith of Los Lobos, when describing the song on the band’s new album, Gates of Gold.

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